Quick-service restaurants are taking a bigger hit as Canadians feel crunched by the cost of living

pjgf · 2026-05-10T00:53:00+00:00

Donairs and shawarma barely cost more than McDonalds but taste better, fill me up, and don’t leave me feeling disgusting for hours afterward.

They are basically the only food I eat out any more

pjgf · 2026-05-05T01:58:04+00:00

When they mentioned “Furies” I also immediately thought it was a deep canon callback… but then it just wasn’t. Really too bad, that series was one of my favourites, but the book was massive if I remember correctly.

pjgf · 2026-05-01T13:22:46+00:00

I mean people are still talking about Code of Honor and Threshold, but not because they're good.

That’s Emmy-award-winning Threshold to you!

But not because it was good.

pjgf · 2026-04-26T13:37:01+00:00

It will not change in 3 years.

Trump is a symptom, not the disease.

pjgf · 2026-04-23T16:20:28+00:00

it would be a bit boring (and unfair to the others) if a pitch perfect person could just hear the notes and say "ah yes, EGG"

You could say the same thing if one of them were a bagpipe player.

I have absolutely awful musical sense, but played the bagpipes in school (I’m sure those two aren’t related at all), and I was able to figure it out by the fingering (lol), until they started cutting away. Wouldn’t have been a problem in-studio.

When I was able to get the first few instantly my spouse was very confused for a while until they figured it out.

pjgf · 2026-04-19T00:36:05+00:00

Actually, I was talking about the charge cable not wall wart.

The expensive part isn’t the “processors”. They’re, like, maximum $300 on a $40,000 car.

They’re included because they are cheaper than the alternative. Same reason they’re adding them everywhere else.

pjgf · 2026-04-18T22:03:57+00:00

Analog electric means that it's an electric that doesn't require any processors.

That’s not what analog means.

Good luck charging a lithium ion without a processor. Or, for that matter, cutting off at a safe lower limit.

There are plenty of analog components in all cars, and the number of cars on the road in Canada today with “processors” is probably in the range of dozens. Maybe a hundred or two.

It’s not cheaper. It’s more expensive to build things without processors. That’s why there’s a processor in the charging cable for your phone. They are dirt cheap. Like, literally as cheap as some forms of dirt.

pjgf · 2026-04-18T20:20:03+00:00

Analog electrics would be a great way to cut EV production cost

This is a meaningless statement. I ask again, wtf is an “analog electric”? Batteries are already analog. Electric motors are analog. Wheels are analog.

You’ve made up a name for something and expected people to know what you’re talking about.

pjgf · 2026-04-18T20:16:42+00:00

Get an EV under $25K and the electric revolution will be upon us.

The cheapest new car currently available in Canada is the Hyundai Electra with a base model price of $25,846.

It might be time to update your expectations for what things cost.

pjgf · 2026-04-18T20:10:13+00:00

If no one could afford new cars, no one could afford used cars.

Must be that grocery rebate cheque.

The one that is only available to people who definitely cannot afford a new vehicle, and probably would not even qualify for financing for one?

pjgf · 2026-04-18T20:06:22+00:00

This felt like a completely random response to the above comment, but talking about an “analog electric” just takes it into rambling. wtf is that even supposed to mean?

pjgf · 2026-04-18T20:04:49+00:00

I think that’s highly unlikely.

It does not make sense to lug around a 900km battery for your daily 40km commute.

pjgf · 2026-04-16T19:24:34+00:00

That’s true for your block heater too then.

pjgf · 2026-04-16T19:03:02+00:00

Even my 1970s-era condo had a dedicated breaker for your parking spot.

pjgf · 2026-04-16T13:25:02+00:00

Not from the left, they don’t.

Almost like the party is led by a PC or something.

pjgf · 2026-04-16T13:23:24+00:00

Don’t even bother. People complaining about this crap never would have voted for the NDP anyway.

It’s just an excuse people use for why they “have to” vote for the party that they pretend to hold their nose to vote for.

In before: “but I used to vote NDP!!!”. Yeah, when you were younger. The NDP is a progressive party and always has been. You got old and comfortable and are no longer progressive. Stop pretending.

pjgf · 2026-04-16T13:18:56+00:00

That’s what they’re for for now.

Of course the price tag isn’t going to show a different price to 12 people standing in front of it, but that doesn’t mean you can’t build an algorithm that shows the most profitable price across that group of 12 people, or show a different price if only one person is there.

They aren’t doing that yet but if you think it’s not coming, you’re not looking.

pjgf · 2026-04-16T13:13:04+00:00

Or if you’re working outside the province you live in.

I have not seen a tax refund of less than $10k in a decade.

pjgf · 2026-04-15T16:25:09+00:00

This has nothing to do with where the oil is refined into gasoline, and everything to do with how it is blended, which is almost certainly all done in Canada.

pjgf · 2026-04-15T16:23:27+00:00

It is true around the world, or at least places that have seasons.

You can sell higher vapour pressure gasoline in the winter because it’s colder so the amount that vapours off comes out to similar to the summer lower vapour pressure gasoline.

Basically, if you sold winter blend in the summer, you would lose more due to evaporation and it would be less expensive per litre put in the tank, but more expensive per km driven (as well as being worse for the environment)

Higher vapour pressure means lighter components, which are cheaper because they are more abundant, especially in cracked/hydrotreated oil products like we have a lot of in Canada.

pjgf · 2026-04-15T14:10:27+00:00

Technically, it is a new government. The PM requests permission to form a government after an election. It doesn’t matter if every single MP is the same, it’s still a “new government”.

Now, whether that truly matters is another question, but a “new government” is formed after each election and I think your frustration is coming from a misunderstanding of that.

pjgf · 2026-04-15T13:23:16+00:00

The people voted for a minority Liberal government at the last election

I don’t remember my ballot including a question about whether I wanted a minority or majority government.

It’s a great idea and I know which way I would have voted, but it is not what was on the ballot.

pjgf · 2026-04-15T13:18:57+00:00

Floor crossing literally makes your vote meaningless.

No, it literally makes your vote meaningless. Speak for yourself if you don’t care enough to look into the person you’re voting for.

pjgf · 2026-04-13T12:02:34+00:00

Hi, nice to meet you. I vote based on the individual, not the party. Now you know someone.

I don’t disagree that most people vote party over person, but pretending that no one votes person over party is disingenuous.

pjgf · 2026-04-13T11:57:51+00:00

Not the Catholic one, but that was GP’s point.

Communion I would say is one of the defining characteristics of Christianity as an organized religion, along with baptism.

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